I don’t believe in dieting.  When someone is “on a diet,” they are temporarily restricting the amount and/or types of food they eat for the purpose of losing weight.  But if the restriction is temporary, the weight loss will be…

When you hear stories about people changing their lives, there’s usually some Ah-ha! moment where they knew something had to change.  I don’t know if I believe most of those things.  The media’s job is to tell a story, and…

As I mentioned in last night’s post, it was adapted from two posts I wrote about five years ago.  The adaptations mostly fell into three categories: fixing typos, changing timelines (saying “five years ago” instead of “last week,” etc.), and…

[This post is adapted from two posts I wrote on an old blog a few years ago, found here and here.  I am not taking that blog down even though parts of it are excruciating for me to read.  I’ll…

Welcome to my new blog.  Here, I will focus on what I cheesily like to call me “health journey.”  For me, there are two distinct aspects to this journey: the PHYSICAL (including specifics on how I have lost the weight,…